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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
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to children. Using the efficiency concepts proposed in Golosov, Jones and Tertilt (2007), we find that whenever the … standard OLG models with exogenous fertility and Millian efficiency in models with endogenous fertility. In particular, we show … that the usual conditions for efficiency are no longer sufficient. Further, we analyze several government policies in this …
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The political process often compensates the losers from technical change or international competition in an economically inefficient way, namely by subsidizing or protecting declining industries instead of encouraging the movement of resources to other more productive uses. We find that a...
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, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …
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of unions is more on equity rather than efficiency. …
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production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to scale due … market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical … support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper is to investigate the link between competition and efficiency for the …
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There are many well developed theories which explain why governments redistribute income. There are very few theories, however, which can explain why this redistribution often takes an inefficient form. In this paper we develop a theory of why redistribution is made inefficiently. Inefficient...
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a Test for Evolving Efficiency which is a GARCH-M model with time-varying constraints. …
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and equilibrium allocations are third best inefficient (where the definition of third best efficiency accounts for …
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cartel pricing, airline prices in Europe might come down more gradually as efficiency increases and market niches are … the other hand, significant monopoly power is identified in domestic markets. Given that prices are not high because of …
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